Learning how to program Max for Live

- Throughout this course, I've shown you the devices…that come with Max for Live Essentials…and also some devices you can download for free.…Now let's see how to start learning…to program your own devices.…I'll start by loading an empty Max MIDI Effect.…I'll go to Max for Live, open up Max MIDI Effect…and drag it to one of the empty MIDI tracks.…Now let's click the Edit Button…to open up the Max environment.…Max is a visual programming language,…meaning that you don't have to write any lines of code.…

You only need to create objects…and build specific connections between them.…You can think of an object like an individual word.…To make sentences, you connect words,…and to make devices in Max, you connect objects.…To edit Max devices, we are going to use a patcher,…which is simply the name of a project in Max.…Right now, we're looking at a patcher.…What we have in this patcher are two objects…that are connected together.…

This one is midiin, and this one is midiout.…Next to this are some other objects…that are called comments, and those are just used…

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11/14/2014

Max for Live is a collection of instruments, effects, and tools to expand Ableton Live's music-production and live-performance capabilities, as well as a platform for building your own DIY devices. In this short course, author Yeuda Ben-Atar, aka Sidebrain, walks you through Max for Live Essentials (the free download for Ableton Suite 9 users), covering the Buffer Shuffler and Convolution Reverb, the LFO and Envelope Follower, and drum synths, and then shares some of his favorite third-party Max for Live devices. Yeuda also shows how to turn Ableton Live into a VJ station and program your own devices, like the patch he creates to turn the PlayStation 3 controller into a MIDI controller, with Max for Live.